linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext4: Fix a possible corruption in dx

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Date:	Thu,  1 Sep 2011 00:00:52 +0800
From:	Tao Ma <tm@....ma>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: Fix a possible corruption in dx_probe.

From: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@...bao.com>

For all the callers of dx_probe, frame_in is passed in uninitialized.
So we should set frame->bh to NULL in the beginning of while, not
the end. Otherwise, the first "goto fail2" will try to brelse(frame->bh)
while frame->bh is still invalid.

Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@...bao.com>
---
 fs/ext4/namei.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index b754b77..86c5c69 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -404,6 +404,7 @@ dx_probe(const struct qstr *d_name, struct inode *dir,
 	dxtrace(printk("Look up %x", hash));
 	while (1)
 	{
+		frame->bh = NULL;
 		count = dx_get_count(entries);
 		if (!count || count > dx_get_limit(entries)) {
 			ext4_warning(dir->i_sb,
@@ -458,7 +459,6 @@ dx_probe(const struct qstr *d_name, struct inode *dir,
 			goto fail2;
 		}
 		frame++;
-		frame->bh = NULL;
 	}
 fail2:
 	while (frame >= frame_in) {
-- 
1.7.0.4

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